Tobler.SoftwareArchitecture()
John Tobler's somewhat ordered collection of thoughts and resources mostly related to software architecture and software engineering.
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Hot off the press!
The ISO/IEC and the ECMA have now ratified Microsoft's specs for the C# language and the CLI. Microsoft has posted the final documents at ECMA and ISO/IEC C# and Common Language Infrastructure Standards. Get your copies now!
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NUnit and NUnitAddIn
I suppose I really should make absolutely certain I have links to NUnit and NUnitAddIn conveniently located somewhere on my Blog. I'l put them both here and in my links. That should do it! If you have not been using NUnit, start now!
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Improve Your Web Searching Skills!
The Resource Discovery Network is just one useful site mentioned in Honing Your Web Searching Skills, a post at Search Engine Watch. While this post points to some cool tutorials on searching the Web and digging into the "hidden web," or "Invisible Web", the key infopoint here is that Search Engine Watch now has an RSS feed
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Some good security links
ScottW posted this about .NET Security Articles at MSDN .
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A free .NET profiler: nprof!
Scott Watermasyk put up a Blog entry calling attention to nprof, the .NET Profiler, a free GNU licensed tool. Do note that this is still alpha code.
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Amphetadesk
AmphetaDesk is a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator. OK, it's not .NET, but it is a pretty cool browser-based tool.
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[Reference] .NET Language List
Brian Ritchie has produced a nice up-to date list of .NET Languages in his .NET Languages Everywhere post.
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Seeking the lazy path
An amusing and interesting article, The Lazy Programmer, on Eli Robillard's World of Blog outlines four "forms" or "orders" of lazification. Robillard states, "Seeking the lazy path will make you a better programmer," but please note that he is talking about "long range laziness," not the kind that finds us sleeping at our cubes. The basic principle is one sometimes called "parsimony," and is responsible for most of natural design, including that of such architectural wonders as soap bubbles and seashells. Robillard's short weblog entry makes for thought-provoking reading.
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[Tip] Official way to restart Explorer
I found yet another Windows tip I did not know in Richard Birkby's Explorer column handler shell extension in C# article at The Code Project:
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Semantic World
The Semantic World site, targeted at "The Data Semantics Community," has some great resources for topics related to the Semantic Web. One example is this featured article, Where to Find Ontologies, which led me so some neat ontology sites I missed -- as well as some old favorites. Semantic World also has a specific Semantic Web Section.